02 May 2007

George Edward Zeigler (1895-1967) and Christine Susan Hjort (1895-1989)


George Edward Zeigler was born on May 26, 1895, in Metcalfe, GA, to John Peter Zeigler and Mary Martha Swift.

Christine Susan Hjort was born on February 18, 1895, in Thomasville, GA, to Peter Julius Hjort and Sarah Lethird Phillips.

George and Christine married on June 2, 1917, in Metcalfe, GA. They settled in Moultrie, GA, then moved to Thomasville. George worked as an automobile insurance salesman. They had 4 children: George Edward, Jr. (1918), Sarah Martha (1920), Jack Montgomery (1923), and Christine Susan (1926). The family later moved to Tallahassee, FL.


George died on June 12, 1967, in Pensacola, FL, at the age of 72. Christine died on August 21, 1989, in Pensacola, at the age of 94.